Family Studies

Launch your dream career as a Family Nurse Practitioner with this hands-on study blueprint for earning your AANP & ANCC certification! Are you looking for seasoned insider strategies for achieving FNP certification? Do you need an in-depth study resource to familiarize you with abstract nursing knowledge, hands-on skills, and real-world clinical care? Or do you want to discover essential techniques to eliminate feelings of anxiety, overwhelm, or burnout? Then this book is for you. Carefully crafted as the complete study blueprint for experienced healthcare professionals who want gain vital ...

You are no doubt a busy student with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to study in preparation for the FNP exam. However, the truth is that the Family Nurse Practitioner exam is a challenging test. It is normal to have some anxiety about taking this test. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked. That is why the author Raquel Hermitanio, a nursing professional, developed the FNP Exam Study Guide! This edition is a complete review & practice questions edition. It contains hundreds of practice test questions.

The Advent: A 25-Day Devotional Countdown to Christmas is the perfect companion for those seeking to embrace the true spirit of the season. This thoughtful Advent devotional takes you on a journey from December 1st to Christmas Day, guiding you through daily reflections on the birth of Jesus. With short, meaningful devotions, you’ll find moments of peace and joy amidst the busyness of the holidays. Each day features a Bible passage, reflection, prayer, and a simple activity to help you connect with the message of Christ’s birth. Whether you're looking for a quiet moment of spiritual ...

Do you struggle to retain the complex details of pharmacological agents? "Pharmacology Mnemonics for the Family Nurse Practitioner" offers a breakthrough method to memorize and apply pharmacological principles effectively. This indispensable resource is tailored to help you master medications through the power of mnemonics. This detailed guide covers essential pharmacological knowledge across eight critical chapters, making complex pharmacology accessible and memorable: Chapter 1: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Made Easy - From absorption to excretion, understand the drug journey ...

The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis casts fresh light on our new forms of marriage and family, on today's dramatic changes in business and economics. It explains the role of cults, the new definitions of work, play, love, and success. It points toward new forms of 21st-century democracy.

What are little boys made of? It used to be frogs, snails, and puppy dog tails, but today it is MTV, ADD, and STDs. So how do parents raise their sons to be respectful and responsible young men in a toxic culture that relentlessly undermines masculine virtues such as moral strength, self-restraint, and respect for women? By letting boys be boys.

A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach.

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of the family, and that of fathers in particular. We’ve heard it said, “As the family goes, so goes the nation.” But it can also be said that “as the father goes, so goes the family.” Consequently, Voddie Baucham has set out to teach men how to faithfully shepherd their families. Derived from Baucham’s monthly meetings with men in his church, Family Shepherds calls men to accountability for their God-given responsibilities in their homes.

The Jesus People movement was a unique combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical Christianity. It first appeared in the famed "Summer of Love" of 1967, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and spread like wildfire in Southern California and beyond, to cities like Seattle, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way into the national media spotlight and gained momentum, attracting a huge new following among evangelical church youth.

Prepare to excel in your certification exams and advance your career with "Adult-Gero Primary Care and Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Review." This comprehensive guide is tailored to ensure nurse practitioners are thoroughly equipped with the knowledge needed to pass their exams and excel in their practice. Dive deep into critical aspects of adult-gerontology and family nursing through structured and focused content: Chapter 1: Core Competencies in Adult-Gero Primary Care - Master comprehensive assessment techniques, integrate evidence-based practice effectively, and navigate ...

Read by the author. Discover how to grow your family with intention and delight as you embrace God's original design for families. New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bethke delivers a powerful critique of the Western notion of the nuclear family and calls us to a sweeping new paradigm...

An interactive, yearlong journey through the entire Bible for families—Part of the USA Today bestselling series with the original The Bible in 52 Weeks! Make Bible study even more meaningful by getting the whole family involved! This Bible study guide features a weekly reading plan to lead...

This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In her extraordinary...

Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What's on Her Mind provides an illuminating look at the cognitive labor that families depend on and reveals why this essential aspect of family life is disproportionately handled by women—even in couples that aspire to practice equality.

Based partly on the author's experience, partly on her in-depth interviews, and partly on a questionnaire she developed with psychologist Holly Barrett to which almost 600 women responded, Father Loss provides the clearest portrait yet of a very special group of women. As a group, they express their insecurities ("Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever be able to love a man totally...because that would mean I didn't love my father anymore." - Leslie).

Back in 2005, the first edition of Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls—how they perceive the world differently, how they learn differently, how they process emotions and take risks differently. Dr. Sax argued that in failing to recognize these hardwired differences between boys and girls, we ended up reinforcing damaging stereotypes, medicalizing misbehavior, and failing to help kids to reach their full potential.

WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize Included in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an...

Read by the author. Who was in the manger that first Christmas morning? And how can we know for sure? In this completely revised and updated edition of The Case for Christmas--reflecting the latest scholarship and research--award-winning legal journalist Lee Strobel weighs the evidence to...

This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson but also their children and Hemings's siblings, who shared a father with Jefferson's wife, Martha.

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated...